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VOL. 33—NO. 35 SIXTEEN PAGES Local Folk Will Be In Thick Of Democrat Doings Stevenson Draft? Anything Can Happen At Chicago The curtain will go up at Chi cago next week on the big quad- riennial Democratic show—the na tional convention, succeeding the Republican national convention after an interval of just one week ! \Lake Committee Making Plans I A special committee to plan for Southern Pines’ new KnoUwood Lake and park, and to coordinate the efforts of groups and indivi duals toward their improvement, was appointed 'Tuesday by Amos C. Dawson, chairman of the Mu nicipal Recreation Commission at a meeting of the Commission held at the WEEB office. Jack S. Younts was named chairman of the lake development committee assisted by Mrs. John S. Ruggles from the Commission, and C. S. Patch, Jr., as ex officio member from the town board. The Commission will build an quite diffeirent capacities, Local television viewers may watch for Mrs. Ruth W. Swisher, elected Eighth District alternate delegate; her son Bill 'Wlarner, who will serve as floor usher, by appointment of Jonathan Daniels; and Arch Coleman, who will make daily transcriptions of comment and analysis for daily broadcast over WEEB. William P. Saunders, of South ern Pines and Aberdeen, was named an alternate delegate at large, but at last report had decid ed he would not bt able to attend. Swisher for Russell Official Eighth District delegate is W. C. McGirt, of Hamlet. While not wishing Mr. McGirt-any bad luck, Mrs. Swisher is frankly hop ing for at least one opportunity to cast her vote— and if it comes on a presidential ballot, her man is Senator Richard Russell, as long as he stands a hair’s-breadth of a chance. His chance' at the party nomination, Mrs. Swisher thinks, is a fine one. If it becomes appar-' ent he is out of the rninning, she is not sure where her vote would go—possibly Senator Kerr, she thinks, for cne vote anyhow, as he happens to be a personal friend. After that—well! She’s not the only one wondering, as it may well become a free-for-all. Mrs. Swisher and Bill leave to day (Friday) by train for the cording to plans 'as discussed at the meeting. It is anticipated that civic clubs or other groups may build other outdoor cooking places later. Sites of such fireplaces will be selected according to an over, all development plan. Any construction at the lake- site will be rustic in type, and the aim will be to keep the wood- ed area “natural-looking.” Bill Sabiston, Jr., of Carthage, has been employed as lifeguard, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 2 to 7 p. m. At other times, pepons swimming do so at their own risk, and signs are to be erected telling them so. A check for $48 from the Amer ican Legion auxiliary, to be used for picnic tables and benches, was appreciatively acknowedged. This was applied immediately to the three sets which have already been built and placed near the lake. Though the BPO Does had indicated their willingness to pay for a set, the three will be record ed as a gift of the Legion auxil iary, and the Does and other or ganizations will be asked to give other sets as needed, or other types of recreation facilities if they prefer. The John Boyd post, 'VFW', was the donor of the floating 'raft. Three street lights are being put up this week by the Carolina Power and Lighi company, to be attached to the -town street light ing system. Miss Oliver Killed In Highway Crash 4t Threshold Of Promising Career County Tax Rate Stays Unchanged, $1.35 Per $100 The county tax rate will be the same this year as last, $1.35 per $100 valuation, it was reported by the county commissioners Windy City, and have reservations at the Conrad Hilton hotel, con vention headquarters. "The Editor" Mr. Coleman—“The Editor” on WEEB—will provide the same coverage for the Democratic show that he did for the Republicans, shipping his taped commentaries by air for broadcast here the fol lowing day. He has remained in Chicago this week, staying at the Lake Shore club. Whether or not other familiar faces will be present is a matter for conjecture. With a stableful of after a long wrestle with the bud get Monday. Details of the estimated budget were not made known but a com plete breakdown will be publish ed next week, said Chairman G. M. Cameron of Pinehurst. It is safe to guess it is the largest in Moore County history, topping last year’s, estimated budget of Six Weeks Out Of College, 10 Days In Extension Job Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at Yates Thaggard Baptist church, Carthage Rt. 3, for Miss Virginia Oliver, who died Friday morning at Lumberton as the result of injuries received in an auto collision at St. Pauls about $1,075,000. The 1951-52 budget was based on an estimated property evaluation of $34,000,000, and new construction in the interval has given this a hearty shove up ward. Capital outlay for schools is the biggest budget item, as it has been for the past several years, the chairman revealed. With requests totaling some S650,000 from the Moore County, Southern Pines and Pinehurst boards cf education, the commis sioners were able to allot approx imately $500,000 for another long horses, light and dark, in the pres-1 stride forward in the county’s idential race, Governor Adlai| “pay-as-you go” plan for school Stevenson of Illinois has once more positively “included himself out.” He has made it plain—even more so, since Eisenhower’s nom ination by the Republicans—that he has no intention of becoming a candidate even in the most ob- liaue fashion. Won't Oppose Ike Absolutely opposed to the prin ciples exemplified by Senator Robert A. Taft, he had left the door slightly open for a change of mind and heart in case of Taft’s nomination. Eisenhower and Ste venson see eye to eye on a fun damental issue, foreign policy,! (Continued on page 5) | construction and plant improve ment. Last year, the tax rate went up from $1.10 to the present $1.35, with the added 25 cents earmark-- ed for schools. The school building program has been a continuous one since 1946 and “We still have a long way to go,” the commissioners say. How ever, except in the case of the new Aberdeen school, they have successfully resisted proposals to hold a bond election, ando to as sume a building program which could run well over $2,000,000. That extra 25 cents is expected an hour earlier. Attended by a large crowd of neighbors and friends, the rites were conducted by Rev. Ernest Hancock, Rev. W. S. Golden and Edgar Dupree. Burial was in the church cemetery. Miss Oliver, who was 20 years old, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Oliver of the Thaggards community. She was a graduate of Farm Life school in the Eureka community, and received her di ploma in June from Woman’s col lege, Greensboro. An outstanding student both at school and college. Miss Oliver on July 1 achieved a long-held ambi tion when she assumed the post of assistant home demonstration agent in Harnett county. She was an active and outstanding 4-H club member while a student at Farm Life. and had studied at Woman’s college with the ambi tion to enter the N. C. Extension Service. At the time of her graduation from Farm Life High school in 1948, she was reported to have the highest record of any graduate of that school. When the fatal accident occur red, Miss Oliver, accompanied by her sister, Ruth Oliver of the home, and a friend, Dorris Ken nedy, was on her way to a district Extension Service meeting at Wil mington. The accident took place within the St. Pauls town limits, at the intersection of US 301 and NO 20 (Continued on page 8) Virginia Youth Is Instantly Killed In Truck Accident I Driver Falls Asleep At Wheel, Patrolman Says A young produce salesman from Pilot, Va., asleep on the front seat of an empty truck, became l\^ore county’s sixth highway fa- t^ity of the year when the driver 11 fell asleep at the wheel early Wednesday morning. Clay Earl Lawrence, 21, was in stantly killed when the truck swerved off NC 211, the Aber- deen-Pinehurst road, just east of the race track, and hit a large tree about 5:45 a. m. According to the report of State Highway Patrolman C. G. Wimberly, who investigated, he had been lying cn the front- seat with his feet hanging out over the door. The impact crushed in the right-hand front part of the truck, and it is likely the boy never knew he had been hit. Donald Herbert Hendricks, 19, also of Pilot, was taken to Moore County hospital su;ffering from minor bruises and shock. Moan ing, “I wish it had been me in- .stead of him,” he revealed that his buddy was married, and that a child is expected next week. No immediate arrest was made. Conferring with Coroner Ralph G. Steed, Patrolman Wimberly was advised to complete his investiga tion and have all information in readiness for a hearing to be held as scon as Hendricks is able to ap pear. He will probably face a manslaughter charge. The two young men were said to have been on their way to the cantaloupe market-Jin Soutl]i Carr olina to pick up a load for sale. The truck was rated as complete ly demolished. LIFE MEMBER County Leases Airport To McKenzie Brothers For Three Year Term two Moore county brothers, R. E.. ^y the lease. (Ed) McKenzie and L. C. (Buck)' “*-*ck McKenzie has taken over McKenzie, for operation as a pri- manager of the airport, vate airport. jHis brother-partner, who is em- The lease was made on recom- ^y J. Bishop & Co., will mendation of the county airport ^®^P 9*^ weekends and in oth- committee, dated July 1 and ef- ®P9’^® time, they said. Plans for fective for three years, with privi- I which they announced lege of rene-^al. include servicing and Use of the field by Piedmont | ™®^*^tenance of all types of small Airlines, Inc., for six months of Two Little Girls Of Pinehurst Are First Polio Victims Two little girls, both of Pine hurst, were listed during the past week as Moore county’s first polio victims of the year, it was learned from Paul C. Butler of Southern Pines, chairman of the county chapter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation. They are Carolyn McKenzie, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene K. McKenzie, and Paulette Die- tenhofer, eight, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Herbert J. Dietenhofer. Bbth were taken to the Guilford Convalescent Center at Greens boro, Carolyn last Thursday and Paulette Monday of this week. Mr. Butler said Wednesday night that he had at that time received no definite report on the seriousness of their cases. West Side Lake Seen As Reality In Near Future to take care of it all—eventually. H. L. Graves Is Moore Chairman For Tennis Team New UNC Morehead Scholarship Plan Henry L. Graves, local insur ance man and graduate of the University of North Carolina, has accepted appointment as Moore (lounty chairman of the Univer sity’s John Motley Morehead Foundation. As explained in a letter receiv ed by Mr. Graves from Capt. E. E. Hazlett, Jr., USN (retd), chairman of the (Central Committee, the Foundation will provide Univer sity scholarships amounting to $1,- 500 a year to selected young men. graduating from high school. It will be the duty of Chairman Graves and a committee he set up to choose the Morehead Scholars from Moore county. Re quirements, it was explained, will follow closely those of Rhodes Scholars—“the cream of the crop.” Emphasis will be placed on leadership, scholarship and physi cal vigor. Mr. Graves wiU attend a meet ing at Chapel Hill Mionday, Au gust 18, with other county chair men, district chairmen, the Cen tral Committee and trustees of the Foundation, including Mr Morehead. There the obpectives of the Foundation will be more specifically set up, with instruc tions for the selection of the first scholarship winners during the school year 1953-54. The two-year-old Foundation has hitherto made awards only to graduate students. Captain Haz lett explained. Those to be made under the statewide program now ■being set up will be the first to undergraduates. Financial need of the candidate has bearing on the award—“we want the best men we can get, regard less of social or financial status.” He said Mr. Graves had been selected for the chairmanship on recommendation as a “loyal, able aggressive alumnus” with the in terests cf education and his State at heart. John Motley Morehead is the donor of the Morehead Planeta rium at Chapel Hill. Possessor of an immense fortune, he took steps some years ago to channel it into the higer education of promising iTar Heel youth. Is League Leader As Playoffs Begin 'The Southern Pines tennis team is in the Number 1 spot as the Eastern Carolina playoffs begin Sunday, having finished the se ries with a record of six victories and only one loss. This is the best record of all the eight competing teams, topping even that of the Raleigh outfit. League champions for the past seven years. The playoffs will begin with matches between the No. 1 and No. 4 teams, and the No. 2 and No. teams. The local players will meet their first adversary on the mupicipal courts here at 2 p.m. Sunday. They don’t know yet, _ , though,, which team this will be. The series ended with two teams having tied scores for No. 2 and No. 3 positions, and foqr teams in a tie for the No. 4 spot. League officials will hold a meeting Saturday to clarify who will be in the playoffs and in what order, with nothing decided so far except that Southern Pines leads ■no tie. The Town completed a transac tidn this week by which, it became the owner of approximately four acres of land in 'West Southern Pines, suitable for the develop ment of a swimming lake and park for Negro citizens of the community. Work will begin on the project at once, said Mayor C N. Page, With the expectation that it will be ready for use before the swimming season ends. 'The tract includes an excellent spring, and is contoured so that, when cleared out and dammed up, a very good lake will result. In fact, one' has been there in the past, though the old dam has long since washed almost entirely away. Basic work for the new West Side lake and park will be done by the town crews and machinery, with further development left” to the people and organizations of the West Side. The site is located beyond the present ending of Ver mont avenue, off Stephens street. On the far side of the lake bed a hill rises steeply, while the near side is a gradual slope suitable for a beach. Major portion of the land was purchased from Mrs. Rosa McLean Letterlow of Gaines street, while the rest, about one acre, was a part of the Whitaker estate. Town officials were assisted in their negotiations and plans by J. C. Hasty, of the West Southern Pines high school faculty, director of the West Side summer recrea tion program since 1949. Mr. Has ty said this week, “The people of our community are very happy over the prospect of having a lake and park. The word has gone all around, and everywhere they are expressing their joy. I am sure there will be the fullest coopera tion among the organizations, churdhes and inc^viduals in add ing improvements, and'providing what recreation facilities they DR. R. G. ROSSER Masons Honor Vass Physician For Long Service Dr. R. G. Rosser of Vass, a Mas ter Mason who has been a mem ber of Southern Pines Lodge No. 484 continuously for 32 years, was presented a Life Membership Cer tificate at a Masonic picnic held in his honor at Lakeview Wed nesday evening. ‘ The certificate, signed by Wil bur H. Williamson, Master, knd Lloyd L. Woolley, secretary, and presented by Mr. Woolley, master of ceremonies for the event, bears this tribute: ‘This award is given in rec ognition of his outstanding devotion to this Lodge and for his unselfish service to hu- manity.” Carolyn was stricken while on a Mr. Woolley noted that Dr. with her family at Rosser was initiated into the order Beach, and was first tak- and took his degrees at St. Pauls, r” James Walker Memorial hos- jiist before coming to Vass. ' Wilmington. After the Dr. Rosser, visibly moved, ac- ‘^'^S'^osis of polio was confirmed, cepted the certificate with a sim- children of the family were pie “Thank you.” placed under quarantine at the . . . . Prior to the presentation, H. ^^“^gh it is expected they it for several years. He was then Clifton Blue, Moore county repre- allowed to come home this employed as a pilot by various sentative and Aberdeen newspa- w^kend. per publisher, spoke briefly. He Paulette also betrayed the first recalled that when he was trying ®y™Ptoms of illness while on a to get started in the newspaper Poturning home with her business he asked Dr. Rosser to from a motor trip to Tex- let him have $5, “and if he hadn’t Present the site of the great aircraft, flying instruction, charter service, etc. The brothers do not as yet own a plane, though they expect to later. For the present they have the use of one, out of Sanford, when needed. The airport’s new management represents an impressive combi nation cf talents and experience. Ed McKenzie, 37, has lived in Southern Pines for the past 18 years, and owns his home at 605 North May street. He was a crew chief and mechanic in the U. S. Air Force during World War 2, and was employed by Resort Air lines, Inc., at Knollwood Airport from its beginning in 1946 until a couple of months ago. When Re sort finally pulled out completely, canceling its lease on the airport by mutual agreement with the county, McKenzie went to the Bishop Company as maintenance superintendent. Buck McKenzie, 34, an experi enced flier, was in the aviation business from about 1940 until two or three years ago,' when he became service manager for the K & W Motor Co. at Raleigh. He was first employed as help er at Knollwood Airport by Har old Bachman, then manager of the airport, who taught him to fly. In 1942 he became manager of the Lee County airport, and operated I don’t know that I could have done it,” he continued. Seriously, he said of Dr. Rosser: “He is one of the outstanding citizens of the community. I know of no one who has done more for the people of J;his area.” Mr. Blue brought greetings from the Aberdeen Ma sonic lodge. Mr. Woolley recognized Mrs (Continued on page 5) Midnight Visitor Caught With Cash At Jacks Grill commercial concerns. Since securing his pilot’s license a dozen years ago he, has flown countless thousands of miles, roll ing up a total of more than 2,000 hours in the air. sons of Mr. and West End married to the for mer Mildred Gunter of Southern have four chil- dren. Buck is married to the for- Th^ ^®^her, of Cameron. Ihey have two children. ®hll living i ? but IS expected to Fred Chapmen o/^uthmnPin^s; I Wade, 29, of WesUolhe SanSliills'soor worthy matron of Magnolia chap- Southern Pines was surprised i ter No. 26, Order of the Eastern ^ ^'^mg under a table i in move responded, and he ex- Jacks Grill, on South West 'Rictii-n'. .predation to the Chap- flight Officers, LO. Will Sawmill Accident Fatal To Worker was surprised , _ in the kitch- Star, who pressed appreciation to the Chap-1 p d n ^ ^ ter members for their important h>- Jones o. . ^ ^ part in making the picnic a sue- j^tart SeCOud Shift D. E. Bailey of Southern ^ade had with him a sack con- OIlllJ (Continued on page 5) taming approximately $115 in i A |- 1 ^ Ol 'cash. The officers found that the, •^^COClte X^laut cash register in the front of the restaurant had been pried open,' Bishop & Co., which started and cleaned out of cash. ube production of hypodermic Taken to Carthage jail, Wade ^^^edles last April in its new plant was haled before a magistrate Carthage road, this week n u-11- J .Saturday afternoon. Probable f”"°^"ced that a second shift will WPS Sanford cause was found against him and P^t on as soon as sufficient was fatally injured early Monday bond of $1,000 wak set for his workers are trained. ^ morning when he was struck in appeanance at the August term' Abotu 60 women are necric.^ + the head by a piece of lumber of criminal court on charges of take the trainTg tests here^ ® sawmill near breaking and entering, larceny said William H.^Morrow person ; L ,, , , , , . . receiving. Early this week he nel manager. They must Ho k!!' A fellow worker placed him in had not made bond and was still tween 18 and 40 with hiph to qou^ho him in jail, though arrangements were education, good’health and S ythern Pines, hunting medi- reported under way for his re- eyesight. ' Seed cal aid. Stopping at the police lease. I Eighty women a™ r, station, he received advice to take The officers’ early call on the' at the Jlant When thTnlw r.ita/^pnd^'^ a hos- restaurant was occasioned by the Ployees have passed their pital, and a policeman went along fact that, making their routine Passeq them tram.n„ as guide. Mr. Hilliard, then un- check of business buildings down- conscious died soon after admis- town, they had observed a broken the Pines. window in the rear of Jacks Grill. owned by J. W. Bridgers, located I it was apparent that the Negro somewhere between Southern had gotten in by way of the win- Pines and Fort Bragg. Mr. Hilliard dow, made his haul and was about had taken a room in Southern to leave by the door when the Pines while on the sawmill job. policemen approached. One min- Funeral services were held ute later, and both Hubert and AT GRAND LODGE MEET Dr. David M. Whitehead, exalt ed ruler, and Don L. Madigan, of the Southern Pines Elks Lodge, are attending the Grand Lodge convention being held this week in New Yotk City. They are at the Savoy-Plaza with others of the N. C. delegation. Wednesday afternoon at Carbon- ton Methodist church, with burial in the church cemetery. Mr. Hilliard was a native of upper Moore, son of Jim and Mlaggie Ward Hilliard. He was first married to Ellen Powers, who died in 1935, and later to Bessie Kimball, who survives, living in Sanford. Also surviving are two sons, Weldon, of Sanford, and Eu gene, of Yanceyville; two daugh ters, Mrs. Bernard Bray,' Clarks ville, Va., and Mrs. Vera Welcher, Sanford; three brothers and four sisters, including Mrs. Addie Poe of Glendon. the cash would have vanished into the night. A check of police records indi cated that the man has recently completed a road sentence. Ths year 1950 was a busy one for him In January of that year he was sentenced to four months on the ••oads on conviction of breaking into Howards Bakery and taking money from a cash box. In June of that year, he received a six months’ sentence for the theft of a watch from Perkinson Jewelers, Inc. His last sentence, in Novem ber 1950, was for creating a dis turbance. passed their training course, about 70 wUl be worlcing for the first shift will be 7 a. m. to 3;30 p m for the second 3:30 to 12 midnight’ New workers will all go to work on the night shift, Mr. Mor- row said’ receiving a transfer to the day shift, if it is desired, by seniority of employment as vacan cies occur. ■ Hypodermic needles of various types are flowing from the plant in a silver stream at the average rate of about 35,000 a day. They are shipped all over the United States by the Bishop company, with headquarters at Malvern Pa., one of the world’s leading’ manufacturers of metal technical and industrial articles. Graves Vann is production man ager bf the Southern Pines plant A top Bishop official, E. E. Com- ^°rt, assistant to the president, was a visitor here for several days last week to observe operations at the new plant. He expressed "great satisfaction with the progress that was being made.
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